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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 4380631" data-attributes="member: 2572">The trick is to find a lawyer who is willing to work for payment based on the counter suit against Wizards for the legal fees if they lose. Before Wizards actually sues instead of just trying C&D letters they need to make sure they have a reasonable claim because otherwise they are in legal jeopardy themselves for damages. After the Monopoly suit, if I were a Hasbro lawyer I would make sure I had a winning case before trying something again and costing the company large amount of legal costs. Something else to keep an eye on is another Hasbro claim of infringement against Scrabulous that they aren't really going after. This is probably the closest we will see to a suit about game mechanics not being copyrightable if they actually go through with it. So far all they have done is send Cease and Desist letters which have been ignored. Despite all claims of infringement however they have not actually filed suit. Given the Monopoly loss I think they are afraid of possibly losing and setting a precedent for people to make similar games to everything else they own.</blockquote>